MySpace Kicks Out Convicted Sex Offenders - deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders

[The Straight Story]

MySpace Kicks Out Convicted Sex Offenders

The popular Internet social network MySpace announced Tuesday it's detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders from its site.

It's a move many police officers are applauding.

"I think it's a step in the right direction for MySpace," said Manteca Officer Stephen Schluer.

Schluer has taught classes to teens and parents about the hazards of MySpace.

Web site officials said they deleted 29,000 sex offenders from its network, more than four times the figure it had initially reported.

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[zbdent]

1. Thousands of freepers

complain that they can't post videos anymore ...

[Uncle Joe]

14. Didn't Murdoch buy it?

I suspect many political members were included in their purge of suspected sex offenders. I don't expect myspace to be any more fair and balanced than FOX "News". I believe anything Murdoch touches will ultimately turn to fecal material in it's integrity if not profits.

[tool_of_the_people]

2. Wasn't there someone on here yesterday

saying that their MySpace site had been removed?

[PeaceNikki]

3. Yes

There was.

[hyphenate]

7. Twas Me!

And I ain't no freaking sex offender!!

Think about it--if there are as many of us who got deleted who are innocent, then Myspace deserves a long, painful and horrific death. And how they "know" who is a sex offender and who isn't is all hogwash. It's like the "no-fly" list and the Floridian felons' lists--too many people whose names are the same or who have absolutely no record and no connection with any felon. For chrissakes--the closest thing to a felony I have is driving without a license last year at the age of 50, because I let my California license expire and hadn't bothered getting a new one in Massachusetts right away. And that was expunged from my record after my court date!

[sarcasmo]

9. You probably have the same name as an offender, that would be my guess.

[PeaceNikki]

10. I didn't rementber who and CERTAINLY didn't want to imply anything of the sort

I agree... it's all a baseless meaningless motion as they have no way of "knowing" who is and is not a sex offender.

[hyphenate]

13. Oh, I'm not mad

at anyone, except perhaps Myspace because it's filled with jerks running it, and with Rupert Murdoch owning it, it's going to get worse now. So if I sounded pissed, please forgive me. I have found some of the companies online complete assholes, and I've been online for almost 20 years, so I can say with some certainty that those who are the biggest dicks will eventually die out and forgotten. There are too many gimmicks out there that are just around the corner as the newest big fads, and for those companies who refuse to spend money on good customer relations, they will have defectors on a constant basis. The internet is not quite as forgiving as brick and mortar businesses because their faults are seen and posted someplace else for more to see.

[pschoeb]

15. You should be mad at Myspace, it seems like it amounts to slander

As anyone who knows your Myspace page, and then sees it's gone right after the announcement, will make the assumption your a sex offender. That seems like a clear case of defamation in transitory form. By the way MySpace is also turning over any information from Myspace pages that it flags as sex offenders to the US States attorneys.

The technology used seems to be Sentinal Safe, which if all it does is match on name, is pretty shitty.

[NMMNG]

17. But you're an atheist

That's just as bad. :sarcasm:

[Occulus]

4. See? We will punish "those people" in grand and petty ways

until the day they die, even for one single transgression which could have been nothing all that serious in the first place.

We'll even do it to people across multiple states, even though state sex offender laws differ from one to the next. We won't give "those people" any chance of truly redeeming themselves- going so far as to bar sex offenders from employment, period.

Way to go. I guess this proves our system works, that people can serve their debt to society and go about their lives...

(Why don't we have a murderer registry? A drunk driver registry? A grand larceny registry?)

[devilgrrl]

5. How'd they know that they were sex offenders? Did they mention it in their profiles?

What a bunch of bullshit. :eyes:

[tool_of_the_people]

6. Maybe they used their DOC e-mail addresses

... to acquire the pages.

i.e., [e-mail]

[devilgrrl]

8. Sure.... that must be it.

:eyes:

[Kingshakabobo]

11. I wonder how many repub congress member's myspace links just went dead?

[High Plains]

12. I could understand pulling the pages if they were using them to seek out...

...people to victimize. That would be an offense against MySpace. But taking down pages of people based solely on a past criminal conviction seems like craven bullshit to me.

[Johonny]

16. So there are no more

John Smiths on myspace...